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- Cultural battles over AI have intensified due to Big AI's lack of consent, environmental impact, and closed systems, while critics are dismissed by zealots making extreme claims.
- A small cohort explores what 'good' AI would look like: consensual data, open source, low hardware requirements, and creator-controlled, exemplified by Corridor Digital's CorridorKey tool.
- CorridorKey is an open-source green screen keying tool trained on CGI-generated data, built with help from commercial AI, and released for free with community improvements.
- The tool's training data is also open, allowing replication, and it is licensed to prevent commercial exploitation without consent, emphasizing accountability and environmental responsibility.
- Key breakthroughs: bad AI behaviors are a choice; purpose-specific AI avoids harm; under-hyped, community-driven development contrasts with Big AI's over-hyped, extractive models.